It was also my way of
reacting against both Color Field painting and the dominance of minimalism during that period.
Not exact matches
We have young kids of
color as captive audiences for an incredible amount of time in schools, she says, how can we not leverage this setting to help them make sense of and
react against one of the most clear threats in their lives?»
Though they
reacted against the gestural wing of Abstract Expressionism, Noland and Louis felt an affinity with non-gestural, «imagist» branch (e.g., Clyfford Still, Mark Rothko, and, later, Barnett Newman), who all worked on a heroic scale with large fields of
color and simple, often unitary, imagery.
In the 1950s and»60s,
reacting against Abstract Expressionism's seriousness and influenced by Surrealist Roberto Matta, Saul began to paint everyday objects like iceboxes, steaks, and toilets in bright
colors, along with political works like his series of graphic, cartoonish «Vietnam» paintings (1960s), which though had no clear moral message or political agenda, were evidently anti-Vietnam War.
Brown also
reacts against the appropriation of certain bodies and histories by artists, including those of women and people of
color.
Color - field
reacted against the juicy, muscular styles of Willem de Kooning and his many followers, which Greenberg deemed spurious and passé.